In this episode, we explore one of the most powerful tools of the human mind - the thought experiment.
We tackle the following questions:
What is a thought experiment?
What are the abilities or strengths or capabilities of a thought experiment?
What are its weaknesses?
What is its main value?
How do you conduct a thought experiment?
What are some areas where thought experiments are most useful?
When running a physically impossible thought experiment, how can we keep it grounded in reality?
When running a historical counter-factual thought experiment, how can we draw conclusions, and what are valid conclusions from such a chaotic system?
What is the advantage of "Intuiting the Non-Intuitive" in a thought experiment?